BACKGROUND Although methadone maintenance is effective in reducing injection drug use, needle sharing, and the overall mortality associated with opiate abuse, many health plans offer little or no access to methadone, and many methadone providers do not comply with treatment guidelines regarding dose, duration of treatment, or provision of ancillary services. Moral and political judgments have h...

Structural Relations of Early Maladaptive Schemas to Craving in Substance-Dependent Individuals under Methadone Maintenance Treatment: The Mediating Role Self-Compassion

We report a case of high-dose methadone prescribed to a heroin addict for pain control. The patient was prescribed methadone during convalescence from surgery and subsequently for maintenance treatment. Dosing was started at 360 mg of methadone per day and reduced over 12 days to an 80 mg/day maintenance dose. Although the patient was drowsy on the initial dose, his recovery was uneventful. How...

BACKGROUND Methadone Maintenance Treatment is a useful method for opioid dependents, which results in harm reduction and increased quality of life in opioid dependents. The prevalence of psychiatric disorders in addicts is higher than in the general population which can interfere with the course and treatment of substance dependents and decrease the efficacy of treatment. METHODS This descrip...

  Background: Today, an increasing trend to methadone as an alternative maintenance treatment for opiate dependence in adults is observed; children for both intentional and accidental reasons are exposed to serious and fetal effects of methadone. We aimed to investigate effects of methadone on children and sexual functioning among adults in Iranian popula...

background: the retention rates are important factors in methadone maintenance treatment. this study was performed with aims to determine the attitude and subjective norms in methadone treatment maintenance among kohgilouyeh and boyer ahmad’s province addict who referred addiction treatment centers. methods: this research was a cross-sectional study that done among men’s addicted who are receiv...

background: to measure suspected abuse of the methamphetamine (ma) among methadone maintenance treatment (mmt) patients in tehran, we studied all 206 patients who were admitted to mmt program from 2009 to 2015 to andishe-no addiction treatment clinic.  methods: ma presence was screened in one of the random urine samples routinely taken for tests of other drugs.  results: 70 (34.3%) patients wer...

a b s t r a c tintroduction: although decision-making processes have become a principal target of study among addiction researchers, few researches are published according to effects of different treatment methods on the cognitive processes underlying decision making up to now. utilizing cognitive modeling method, in this paper we examine the effects of methadone maintenance treatment (mmt) on ...

OBJECTIVES Methadone is the most frequently prescribed medication for the treatment of opioid dependence in the U.S., and questions relating to appropriate dosing of methadone remain an important issue. Given accumulating evidence suggesting an elevated prevalence of personality pathology in opioid dependent populations, as well as evidence of an association between Cluster B characteristics an...

Sir—Ritter et al .’s [1] claims their results show ‘LAAM maintenance has equivalent efficacy to methadone’ and ‘both treatments were equally effective in retaining clients in maintenance treatment’ are misleading. Their retention results actually favour methadone and their study was too small to identify confidently a clinically significant difference between the two maintenance drugs. The tria...